Dump-car.



F. S. INGOLDSBY. DUMP CAR. APPLICATION nun) JULY Allan/T015 UNITED sTAT s raTENT OFFICE.

FRANK S. INGOLDSBY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE INGOLDSBY AUTO- MATIC CAR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF WEST GINIA.

DUMP-CAR.

Specification of Letters I'atent.

Patented May 14, 1912.

Application filed July 2, 1907. SerialNo. 381,902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK S. INGOLDSBY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

the accompanying drawings.-

This invention relates to 'dumpin cars having load supporting doors WlllCll c rop to discharge the load across them.

The object of the invention is to arrange such a car with supporting mechanism for the door which shall be very simple and -ef fective in construction and shall allow a maximum discharging surface for the door, whereby it may carry the material to the most advantageous point.

The invention is particularly well adapted for cars of the Ingoldsby type wherein there is a central longitudinal member to the opposite edges of which are hinged dumping doors which extend outwardly to the car sides when closed, these doors ported at the car sides or released to swing downwardly at their outer edges to discharge the load across them.

. Tn the Ingoldsby cars, hooks have been provided on the sides of the car engaging with floor beams on the underside of the doors to support the doors. These floor beams have heretofore extended beyond the outer edges of the doors, and have been provided with hooks engaging the outer sides of the supporting hooks to prevent outward bulging of the car sides.

Tn the present invention I extended the surface of the door beneath the supporting hooks to the end of the floor beams and pro vide slots through the door sufficient to allow the passage of the supporting hooks. I thus 'at vonce avail myself of a wider door than is possible with the projecting floor beams and at the same time I prevent outward bulging of the car side by reason of the outer edge of the slots in the doors engaging the supporting hooks.

I By this invention, T have provided a simpler and, for some purposes. a more eilicient being supstructure than the former construction re.- ferred to.

The invention is herein after more fully explained in connection with the accompanying drawings.

, In the drawi'ngs Figure 1 is a vertical cross section through a car embodying my lIlVQIIiJlOIl. Fig. 2'is a portion of a side elevation of such car ad acent to one of the supporting hooks. Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of one of the doors removed. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section through a portion of a wooden car adjacent to the lower edge of the side and the outer ed e of the door.

eferring first to l igs. 1, 2 and 3, 10 are resents the plate of a girder side, and 11 t 0 lower chord of such side. 12 indicates the central longitudinal ridge member to which are hinged dumping doors 13, these doors being provided with floor beams 15 which are in the form of angle bars. The inner ends of these angle bars may be bent around onto themselves to form hinge eyes as shown at 16. The plate or surface 13 of the door extends beneath the side plate 10 of the carand beneath the lower chord. This surface is provided with slots 20 adjacent to the floor beams, and extending parallel with the longitudinal edge of the car, these slots being so placed that when the door is closed they come outside of .the side plate of the girder and directly beneath supporting hooks 21 which are pivoted to the sides of the car.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the supporting hooks are mounted on blocks 23 carried by the car sides, and the hooks extend through slots in a horizontal flange of the lower chord, and adapted to pass through the slots 20 in the doors and engage the under side of the floor beams. The lower portion of the hooks are curved in an are about the hinge of the door as a center, so that the supportjug hooks may occupy the slots comparatively closely and still clear the same. It

will be seen that when in locked position the supporting hooks by reason of their beveled...

ends draw the door snugly into place, while the outer wall of the slots prevent any outthe iconstruotion over my prior arrangement ward bulging of the car side. When the door is dropped to the proper dumping angle it may still extend a considerabledis- -t-ance beyondtheirail and thus carry the discharging load to the point desired. By having thesurface of the door engage the side plate of the car instead of the lower chord itself, a tighter joint may be effected; for in longitudinal center member, dumpingdoors case any material sticks to the door, the comparatively thin plate W551i cut through such material. I t

Fig. t illustrates the invention adapted to a Wooden car. Here the surface 13 of the door may be of Wood and the lower chord 11' of the car side may also be of wood. 27

represents a plate secured along the inner faceof the lower chord and depending from it, the door abutting-the lower edge of thls "plate tomake the tight joint referred to.

The levers 21 are. carried by blocks 23 sup-- ported by the car side, and the doors have their surface slotted to receive the levers as already described.

It will be seen from the above description that my improvement is equally adaptable for; steel and wooden cars; that it simplifies *jofdoiible locking hooks, and. provides a *yinore extended door, surface for the material farther out from the rail.

to runi'on during discharge, thus carrying it .I'claim: f

1. The combinatlon, 1nv a dump car, of a load supporting door having a surface with an. opening through it and a floor beam on its under side adjacentto such opening and a supporting member adapted to extend. through the opening and engage the floor beam to hold the door, said means being movable to release the floor beam and door.

2. In a dump car, the combination with a-car side, of a hinged door having its free edge coiiperating with such side and having an open ng near such s1de",- and a support- 111 hook carried by the car side on its outer side and adapted to extend through such opening.

'3. The combination, in a dump'car, of. a

car side, a hinged door having a load supporting surface with an opening through it and a floor beam on its under side adjacent to such opening, and a supporting member oarriedby the ear side and adapted to ex tend through the opening and engage the free the floor beam.

floor "beam or be i'noved in the opening to 4. dump car, the combination of a car side having a plate With'a comparatively narrow lower edge, a dumping door adapted to'engage such edge, and meanscarried outside of such edge for supporting the door.

5. In'a dump car, the combination with a car side having a lower chord and a narrow pl n-t e extending lower than-such chord, a dumpin door hav ng a load supporting surface adapted to extend beneath and en gage the lower edge of such plate, and supporting hooks carried by the'car side and adapted to extend through openings in the door surface beyondsuch narrow plate.

6. In a dump car, the combination of a hinged thereto and extending outward bee yon'd the car side, openings through ,the doors near the outer edges thereof and hoolgs.

on the outer sides of the car sides adapted."

to pass through such openings and engage the under side of the door. v

7. In a dump' car, the combination of a longitudinal center member, dumping doors hinged thereto andextending"outward to the-car side, floor beams for said doors, 0 enings through the doors-adjacent to the foor beams near the outer edges of the doors, and hooks on the outer sides of the car sidesadapted to pass through such openings and engage the under side of the floor beams.

'8. The combination of adumping door having a floor beam in the formof an angle bar and a supportinghook arranged to pass through an opening in the surface of; thedoor and engage beneath the depending flange of the angle.

9. In a dump car, the-combination of a dumping door hinged at one edge and havingnear its other edge a longitudinal slot parallel therewith adapted to stand outside of the side wall, and a supporting member adapted to extend through said slot, said member and slot cooperating to prevent the outward bulging of the car side. i i

10. The combination of a dumping door having its longitudinal edge adapted to cooperate with the car side, an opening through said door near said longitudinal edge adapted to stand outside of the side wall, and a member carried by the carside and adapted to extend through suclnopening to support the door and prevent the v i a 110 outward bulging of the side. v 11. In a dump ear, the combination of'a load supporting dumping door hinged near one edge and having a longitudinal slot near its outer'edge and beyond that part'of- 'thej door engaged by the side of thejcar,

12. .In a dump car, the combinat on of a hinged. dumping door having a slot through it adjacent the edge opposite the hinge,

non-flexible means for supporting the door and adapted to extend through. such slot and engage the under side of the door.

13. In a dump ear, the combination of a'., hinged door having an openin through it; adjacent the edge opposite the hinge, andgh', hook adapiod to ez-rtcndthrough such 0 our" .ing and engage the under side of the cor.

14. In mdump car, the combination of a holding it whether it engages or releases the hinged dumping door having an opening door. I 10 through it near its free edge opposite the Intosjfimony whereof, I hereunto affix my hinge, a supporting member adapted to ex signature in the presence of two witnesses.

5 ten through such opening and engage the FRANK S. INGOLDSBY.

under side ofthe door, smd member being 'Witnesses: adapted to disengage the door to release it, L. E. Boo'rn,

and a pivotal support for the said. member C. L. BREMERMAN. 

